Pangea Blockchain Fund Raises $22 Million, Backed by Roger Ver

The Switzerland-based blockchain fund has made its debut within the sector by securing $22 million within the seed spherical.

According to the February 27th announcement, Pangea has attracted the eye of a number of well-known personalities within the trade together with the angel investor and creator of Bitcoin Cash Roger Ver.

Commenting on the large funding spherical, James Duplessie, co-founder of Blockchain Investment Advisory Sagl and the fund’s Swiss-based funding advisor, mentioned: “Blockchain know-how has the potential to alter the character of the programs that lie beneath the issues we do each day and might be the best driver of worth creation in our lifetime.”

No to Crypto Investments

Pangea is focusing to spice up “transformative” blockchain startups across the globe with early-stage capital and different assets. The fund, nevertheless, made it clear that it isn’t going to spend money on digital currencies and can confine its attain solely to “business and industrial functions” of blockchain know-how.

“Our crew’s funding thesis relies on the profoundly necessary actuality that blockchain will basically alter the way in which society collaborates, transacts, governs and brings new ideas to life. We have chosen the title ‘Pangea’ for our enterprise – as a result of it means ‘entire earth’ – highlighting our intention to make use of blockchain as a way to supply unifying and transformative change to the world,” Duplessie added.

Alongside Blockchain Investment Advisory Sagl, U.S.-based Blockchain Investment Advisory LLC will work because the sub-advisor for the fund.

Meanwhile, the Swiss blockchain advisory can be launching a blockchain incubator – Ticino Labs – within the coming months.

“Blockchain represents a brand new paradigm for the way in which info is shared, and the use instances for a clear, verifiable register of knowledge transactions are infinite,” mentioned Maggie Rokkum-Testi, chief funding officer of Copernicus. “This know-how will contact and remodel each trade, from power and public utilities to retail and healthcare. Due to its distinctive funding technique and various understanding of each conventional and non-traditional markets, the Advisory groups are uniquely outfitted to grasp and capitalize on a possibility of this magnitude. We’re excited to be early companions and to play an energetic position in fostering the people and corporations designing these new financial, social and political programs.”

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